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Study resolves controversy over nitrogen's ocean 'exit strategies'

April 10, 2014

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A decades-long debate over the dominant way that nitrogen is removed from the ocean may now be settled. Researchers found that both of the nitrogen "exit strategies," denitrification and anammox, are at work in the oceans.
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